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Cloud procurement presents an opportunity to reevaluate existing procurement strategies so you can create a flexible acquisition process that enables your public sector organization to extract the full benefits of the cloud. Download the whitepaper for “10 Considerations for a Cloud Procurement” for the public sector.

Are you ready to move to the cloud but looking for practical guidance? The following are key components to help streamline your cloud procurement strategy. Take a look at the tips below and download the full whitepaper here for more details.

1. Understand why cloud computing is different
2. Plan early to extract the full benefit of the cloud
3. Avoid overly prescriptive requirements
4. Separate cloud infrastructure (unmanaged services) from managed services
5. Incorporate a utility pricing model
6. Leverage third-party accreditations for security, privacy, and auditing
7. Understand that security is a shared responsibility
8. Design and implement cloud data governance
9. Specify commercial item terms
10. Define cloud evaluation criteria

Thousands of public sector customers use AWS to quickly launch services using an efficient cloud-centric procurement process. Keeping these steps in mind will help you deliver more quickly on citizen-, student-, and mission-focused outcomes.

For more detail, visit the AWS “How to Buy” page for the details you need to get started. Check out the latest procurement sessions from the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC: So You’ve Decided to Buy Cloud, Now What? and Get Started Today with Cloud-Ready Contracts for practical insights that will help you along your path.

From computer vision systems for autonomous driving to FDA-approved medical imaging, artificial intelligence (AI) is driving public sector innovation. Governments, defense agencies, and other public sector organizations are adding AI into their platform, solutions, and products to perform tasks that usually require human-level intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, or translation.

In order to change the way services are delivered to the blind or to inspire the next generation of space explorers, organizations need to overcome hurdles related to the scale of data, scale of compute, and variety of devices and platforms that intelligent systems need to ultimately run on. To be able to realize impactful results, Amazon AI breaks down services into three main layers, which sit on top of the AWS infrastructure and network:

• AI Services: Application developers can easily add built-in intelligence into their solutions using the Amazon AI Services. AI Services are powered by machine learning and deep learning, but provide higher level services to add intelligence into your applications. These AI Services include: Amazon Rekognition for image and facial analysis, Amazon Polly for text-to-speech, and Amazon Lex, an automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding service for building conversational chat bots. Within the public sector, Rekognition is being used to build facial search databases, user verification, sentiment analysis, and image classification and tagging of entities.
• AI Platforms: If you have existing data and want to build custom models, we provide a set of AI platforms which remove the heavy lifting associated with deploying and managing AI training and model hosting: Amazon Machine Learning (with both batch and real-time prediction on custom linear models) and Amazon EMR (with Spark and Spark ML support).
• AI Engines: A collection of open-source, deep learning frameworks for academics and data scientists who want to build cutting edge, sophisticated intelligent systems, pre-installed configured on a convenient machine image. Engines, such as Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, Torch, and CNTK, provide flexible programming models for training custom models at scale. For example, Apache MXNet scales almost linearly across hundreds of GPUs, training efficient models which can be run anywhere from new, custom Intel processors and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to embedded devices on robots and drones.

AI in the Real World

The below organizations serving the public use some of Amazon AI services:

Nonprofits: The Royal National Institute of Blind People is able to change the way services are being delivered to the blind by using AWS. “We are currently using Amazon’s Speech-to-Text technology to create and distribute accessible information in the form of synthesized audio content for our many B2B and B2C customers, including utility companies, financial institutions, and media companies, as well as other customer-facing material such as magazines and publications. With the announcement of Amazon Polly, we’re excited about the ability to provide an even better experience to these customers by delivering incredibly lifelike voices that will captivate and engage our audience,” said John Worsfold, Solutions Implementation Manager, Royal National Institute of Blind People.

Health: Ohio Health, a nonprofit health organization, is utilizing evolving speech recognition and natural language processing technology to enhance the lives of its customers. “Amazon Lex represents a great opportunity for us to deliver a better experience to our patients. Everything we do at OhioHealth is ultimately about providing the right care to our patients at the right time and in the right place. Amazon Lex’s next generation technology and the innovative applications we are developing using it will help provide an improved customer experience. We are just scratching the surface of what is possible,” said Michael Krouse, Senior Vice President Operational Support and Chief Information Officer, Ohio Health.

Government: Leveraging Lex, the backend that powers Amazon Alexa, NASA, in order to spark innovation, has built a voice activated version of the MARS robot. A star robotic ambassador is “Rov-E,” a close replica of real NASA Mars rovers. NASA staff can easily navigate Rov-E via voice commands. Multi-turn dialog management capability enables Rov-E “to talk,” answering students’ questions about Mars in an engaging way. Integration with AWS services allows Rov-E to connect and scale with various data sources to retrieve NASA’s Mars exploration information.

Financial Services: Using Amazon EMR, FINRA is able to capture, analyze, and store a daily influx of 75 billion records in order to identify fraud and other anonymous activities.

Law Enforcement: Using various models, ShotSpotter delivers real-time gunshot notifications to law enforcement so they can dispatch to the precise location of the gunshot, engage with the community, look for evidence and occasionally help victims and make arrests. Their goal is to help drive down illegal gun use. Also, Washington County Sheriff’s Department uses Rekognition to be able to cross reference persons of interest with mugshots in their system. This allows for the department to drive leads quicker and allow investigators to focus on valuable leads.

Defense Agencies: The defense community is also starting to use machine learning systems to identify advanced persistent threats in their networks. They are using machine learning to provide enhanced endpoint protections and predict the potential threat of certain behaviors by privileged users with system admin roles.

Education: Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana uses machine learning for more than 70% accuracy in predicting students who are struggling, enabling faster intervention.

Learn more about AI at AWS here as well as in Werner Vogels’ keynote from the AWS Public Sector Summit and other AI-related sessions.

We just wrapped the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington D.C with over 10,000 registrations, 100 business and technical sessions, and 95 partners participating.

At the Summit, Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, and Teresa Carlson, AWS’s VP of Worldwide Public Sector, took the main stage at the Summit to share announcements affecting our public sector customers.

Read about the announcements below:

• AWS GovCloud (US) Heads East – New Region in the Works for 2018: AWS GovCloud (US) gives AWS customers a place to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the AWS Cloud. The first AWS GovCloud (US) Region was launched in 2011 and is located in the western US. We are working on a second Region that we expect to open in 2018. The upcoming AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region will provide customers with added redundancy, data durability, and resiliency, and will also provide additional options for disaster recovery. Learn more here.
• Amazon Rekognition Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West): Amazon Rekognition, an AI service, that enables software developers to quickly and easily build applications that analyze images, and recognize faces, objects, and scenes, is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon Rekognition uses deep learning technologies to automatically identify objects and scenes, such as vehicles, weapon or alley, and provides a confidence score that lets developers tag images, so that application users can search for specific images using key words.
• City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge: AWS announced the winners of the 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge at the AWS Public Sector Summit. We recognized 19 winners across the three award categories of the competition – Best Practices, Dream Big, and Partners in Innovation. The competition was designed to recognize how local and regional governments are innovating on behalf of citizens across the globe.
• AWS Education Competency: We announced the AWS Education Competency, a recognition of the highest bar for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who provide solutions to meet the needs of education customers. AWS Education Competency Partners have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success providing specialized solutions aligning with AWS architectural best practices to help support teaching and learning, administration, and academic research efforts in education.
• California Polytechnic State University Goes All-In on AWS:  Also, we announced that California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), one of the top engineering schools in the nation, will migrate all core applications to AWS. By choosing the cloud with the most functionality, the fastest pace of innovation, the largest ecosystem of customers and partners, and the most proven operating and security expertise, Cal Poly is well-positioned to offer a best-in-class student experience. Learn more here.

We also heard from global cloud leaders transforming their organization with the power of the cloud, including Ocean Conservancy, UK Ministry of Justice, Australian Taxation Office, Blackboard, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Check out some of the photos from the event and stay tuned for videos and slides from the breakout sessions.

Today, AWS announced the winners of the 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. We recognized 19 winners across the three award categories of the competition – Best Practices, Dream Big, and Partners in Innovation. The competition was designed to recognize how local and regional governments are innovating on behalf of citizens across the globe.

“We continue to be amazed by the work that our customers are doing around the world to better serve citizens. This year’s City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge produced inspiring applications from cities, police departments, school districts, and our partners that use real-time data analytics, IoT services, and open data projects, all on the AWS Cloud,” said Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “AWS is proud to recognize this year’s winners and showcase the innovation to improve our roads, provide digital learning to all students, and benefit first responders.”

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Best Practices (Large)

• City of Virginia Beach: StormSense enhances the capability of Virginia Beach and neighboring communities to predict coastal flooding resulting from storm surge, rain, and tides in ways that are replicable, scalable, measurable, and make a difference worldwide.
• Transport for London: Built on the AWS Cloud, LondonWorks 2 provides a modern cloud-based solution that provides a complete picture of all roadwork to allow London’s service providers to plan on a city-wide basis and alleviates the potential for significant disruption and delay.
• Solodev and Seminole County Public Schools: By utilizing the power of the Solodev platform built on AWS, Seminole County Public Schools were able to set a new standard for modern K-12 websites while saving money and streamlining operations.

Best Practices (Small)

• Lawrence Police Department: The Lawrence Police Department partnered with BodyWorn by Utility to provide Body Worn Camera technology using AWS for big data storage and analytics. Video and audio recording collected by police officers is instantly, effortlessly uploaded in a safe, encrypted storage environment.
• Intermediate School District 287: With a mission to provide high-quality learning opportunities to Minnesota public school students, Intermediate School District 287 turned to the AWS Cloud for affordable storage and management of digital resources.

Best Practices – Honorable Mention

• Caltrans: The Caltrans project has one main goal: to reinvent traffic incident response for California. The project relies on an all-in move to the AWS Cloud to support data storage, analytics, and scaling for testing.

Dream Big (Large)

• Louisville Metro Government: By utilizing machine learning, real-time traffic data, and IoT, Louisville is building an adaptive traffic flow management system that can sense detrimental systemic changes to traffic and automatically adjust city infrastructure to mitigate the impact.
• Tulsa Public Schools: Tulsa Public Schools aims to build a recommendation engine to support school teams with data-informed decision making. Tulsa Public Schools seeks to be a proof-point in public education by leveraging data as strategic asset to improve academic outcomes for kids.

Dream Big (Small)

• City of Iowa City: Johnson County, Iowa is expanding their post-booking jail diversion program using inter-departmental data to predict and identify populations that would benefit from a pre-jail diversion program, better understand infrastructure costs, where to increase efficiencies, and show improved outcomes.
• Marmion Academy: Marmion CPARC Engineering Center is a prototype for business and education STEM collaboration. They require high performance computing, remote learning, and virtual desktop solution assets to advance this to other schools.

Dream Big – Honorable Mentions

• City of Ottawa: Ottawa would like to create a repeatable process in other Canadian cities and abroad using IoT sensors for water distribution, traffic applications, and disaster recovery, and further leverage the existing infrastructure of ottawa.ca to handle surges in web traffic.
• WSIPC: WSIPC plans to build a user interface so trainers will be able to select a database backup to be used for professional development and troubleshooting. Training has been rolled out to five states and over 20,000 users, and has expanded internationally.
• Seattle Public Schools: Seattle Public Schools intends to design a system to close the opportunity gap for historically underserved students. The AWS Cloud will enable advanced data services, such as predictive analytics, to focus on the improvement of student outcomes.
• City of Las Vegas: Las Vegas would like to use AWS and Amazon Alexa to help local students at risk of falling behind in school due to challenges with attendance and keep them up to speed on knowledge and literacy.

Partners in Innovation

• Anthemis Technologies (France): Anthemis Technologies has developed a beacon called “Help-me,” allowing firefighters to save time during interventions. The application provides information about location and people injured, details about the dwelling access code, as well as medical history data that could help save lives.
• Blue Spurs (Canada): In partnership with the Government of New Brunswick, Blue Spurs created the Blue Kit, a creative, low-cost IoT educational starter kit that allows middle and high school students to understand the fundamentals of IoT in an interactive, fun environment.
• LearnZillion (US): LearnZillion is changing the paradigm of K12 curriculum from a static product to an adaptable, cloud-based service. They promote productive struggle in traditional and blended classrooms, allow for localization of the curriculum to better meet the needs of teachers and students, and empower teachers to better orchestrate meaningful learning experiences.
• Tolemi (US): Tolemi is building a platform that integrates seamlessly with all government systems and databases to collect, aggregate, and cleanse data, creating a data standard for the BuildingBlocks software to derive insights.
• Xaqt (US): Xaqt’s urban analytics platform bridges people and data with policy and best practices to help policymakers and citizens better understand how cities function. The platform handles: data integration, deep analytics, and making insights accessible to drive collaboration and data sharing across the city.

For more information on the winner’s projects, click here.

Thank you to all of this year’s participants!

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 offers a comprehensive set of information security controls. The current version, revision 4, contains nearly one thousand controls spread across 19 different controls families.

NIST 800-53 rev 5 is scheduled to be released in 2017 (initial public draft anticipated in late June 2017) with updates for current as well as future adopters. These changes are designed to continue to improve the security posture of information systems across both federal and non-federal systems.

Since NIST 800-53 was first introduced, the number of controls has greatly expanded; the initial version of 800-53 contained approximately 300 controls and NIST 800-53 rev 4 contains 965 controls. But it’s not just the number of controls, the structure and organization of the controls have evolved as well. While these changes are designed to increase the security posture of the systems protected, the process of migrating to new versions can be complex.

Ongoing requirements

Despite the complexity, each NIST 800-53 revision makes the controls set increasingly valuable. As things like mobile, IoT, and cloud evolve, NIST continuously enhances 800-53 to make migration an ongoing requirement.

The NIST 800-53 controls catalog can be leveraged to improve and maintain the security posture of any organization, but for federal agencies, their implementation is required. The NIST 800-53 controls are the basis for the assessment and authorization (A&A) of all federal systems. As new versions of NIST 800-53 are introduced, the rules for compliance change, putting the responsibility on organizations to understand the differences between versions and how these changes impact their authority to operate (ATO). Managing this migration process manually using spreadsheets can be labor intensive, prone to error, and sometimes unmanageable for organizations that have multiple systems to manage.

Automation – critical to keeping pace

A centralized application to automate critical A&A processes is essential to managing implementations efficiently. Xacta 360, a solution from APN Technology Partner Telos is optimized to run in AWS environments, including AWS GovCloud (US). Xacta 360 streamlines the end-to-end A&A process workflow. Content, such as new and changed controls, including updates to the controls language, becomes available in Xacta 360 as it is introduced by NIST. Telos engineers crosswalk NIST 800-53 upgrades and make these crosswalks available within the software. Unlike spreadsheets that require weeks of effort to migrate each project, with Xacta 360, this process is entirely automated and takes minutes to move from an older version of NIST 800-53 to the most current version.

Helping organizations keep pace with changes to NIST 800-53 is an example of how automation can take the pain out of security compliance. Xacta 360 operationalizes the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) for AWS-based cloud and hybrid IT systems, accelerating progress through the entire six-step RMF process.

Learn more here about how Xacta 360 helps organizations keep pace with potentially disruptive changes and updates to NIST controls and frameworks, and visit: www.telos.com/Xacta360

This week, the Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP) and AWS celebrated the first cohort in the Pathways Scholarship program. The program is designed to create tech opportunities for the under and unemployed in Washington, DC, by providing a program with resources, training, employment, and ongoing support. This is a collaboration between the DC government, AWS, and local nonprofit organizations focused on technical training.

At the launch event at Washington DC’s Inclusion Innovation Incubator (In3), Tricia Davis-Muffett, Senior Leader for AWS Public Sector Marketing said, “without engaging the whole population of available tech talent, our customers will not be able to build, our partners will not be able to build, and we will not be able to build. It is critical for us that we engage every person in the technology revolution.”

Every person and organization involved with the program is committed to building an inclusive environment within their own organization. The individual path that an organization takes will be unique, but the outcome must be the same – include the excluded, train the untrained, and employ the under and unemployed.

The organizations involved include the nonprofits Byte Back and Thinkful, along with mentoring support from In3 and The Mentor Method.

With thousands of open technical and non-technical roles at AWS and within our customers and partner organizations, AWS aims to be at the forefront of training and building the future tech workforce.

To get started with training or learn about our inclusion efforts, visit https://aws.amazon.com/we-power-tech/.

A guest post by Steven Ramage, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

The environment is measured with precision through Earth Observation (EO) satellite and in-situ – and the global community is leveraging this investment by accessing the information for free. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), developed over the last decade, makes more than 200,000,000 open EO data resources accessible for better decisions on a range of areas from food security to protection of biodiversity, renewable energy and disaster resilience. With more than 150 data providers, an important element of GEOSS is a brokering framework called the GEO DAB (Discovery and Access Broker). The GEO DAB makes use of cloud IaaS and PaaS AWS capabilities including load balancing, DNS routing, auto-scaling, monitoring, elastic map reduce, storage, and computing.

Our changing planet is characterized every day by extreme weather events and increasing numbers of people vulnerable to the elements due to poor living conditions. With data becoming available in real time, wildfires can be identified and tracked and flooding can be predicted. Volcanoes and earthquakes have devastating consequences, but rescue missions can harness EO to speed up emergency response.

Fossil fuel energy use accounts for more than two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions and GEO is committed to increasing the global share of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, in combination with energy efficiency, to help limit a further rise in global temperature. GEO’s energy community portal developed in partnership with MINES ParisTech supports many renewable energy related programmes, including the ones from the European Commission H2020 and Copernicus programmes, and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Global Atlas for Renewable Energy project linked to the World Bank’s programmes for mapping renewable energy resources with EO data, ESMAP. Detailed information at high resolution that is broadly available allows improved cost estimates for governments or businesses looking to expand energy development.

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming, responsible for about 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The process of photosynthesis in plants takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, so there is a strong incentive to stop the destruction of forests. GEO’s Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is helping developing countries measure, report and verify forest areas and carbon stocks, critical not just for the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, also for the UN Agenda 2030.

The GEOSS evolution includes big data analytics to move from data sharing to information and knowledge generation and sharing, in particular to support the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). GEO supports:

• Sustainable Development Goal 2 (zero hunger) through its GEOGLAM crop monitors.
• Goals 3 and 11 through activities for air quality.
• Goal 6 on water through water quality analysis.
• Goals 11 and 15 on land consumption and degradation by building developing better. approaches to generating Land Cover products.
• Goals 14 and 15 on biodiversity and ecosystems by facilitating improved monitoring.
• Above all, GEO is a global community and partnership and supports SDG Goal 17 of partnerships through its intergovernmental status.

GEO convenes providers and users of open EO data, aiming to highlight best practices and eliminate duplication of effort to harness the Data Revolution for the benefit of humanity. With the support of commercial sector leaders, such as Amazon, this mission is advanced.

Learn more about GEO and visit the geoportal.org where the 200m free and open resources reside.

Note: AWS has provided a research grant via the Cloud Credits for Research program to GEO to support their mission of connecting government institutions, academic and research institutions, data providers, businesses, engineers, scientists and experts to create innovative solutions to global challenges.

Cloud computing is at an inflection point in government, moving towards mass adoption. In the past, government tended to move to cloud incrementally – trying email or storage then a database or two. Now that those small moves have proven themselves, agencies are ready for wider adoption. One area in particular is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Given the DoD’s diverse and global mission, cloud computing offers ideal qualities like pay-as-you-go pricing, scalability, security, and the ability to experiment. Defense agencies, such as the U.S Navy, have used the cloud for forward-facing websites, experiencing over 60% in cost savings. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Enlighten IT Consulting (EITC) have created a data analytics platform used by mission partners across the DoD. With AWS GovCloud (US), the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is able to centrally store data so people in different places can work with a common set of information, such as schedules, post-mission reports, inventories, and plans. And AWS Snowball Edge brings compute and storage to cargo planes and war vessels in tactical situations.

The economic and agility advantages of cloud, combined with the ability to use AWS at every level of classification, opens doors for defense agencies to take advantage of the cloud for the warfighter.

From enterprise IT to data analytics to supporting the war fighter, watch this video featuring Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector, AWS, to learn how the DoD has evolved its use of cloud computing.

Read more about AWS for Defense here.

We are excited to announce our lineup of customer keynote speakers joining us on the main stage for the eighth annual AWS Public Sector Summit June 12-14th at the Washington DC Convention Center. Hear these technology leaders from around the world share their firsthand stories of innovation for the public good and how digital transformation is changing the public sector.

• John G. Edwards, Chief Information Officer, CIA
• Craig Fox, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office
• Jeffrey D. Armstrong, President, California Polytechnic State University
• Dr. William Ballhaus, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Blackboard
• Andreas Merkl, President, Ocean Conservancy
• Tom Read, Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), Ministry of Justice UK
• Ian McCormack, Technical Director Applied Risk Management, National Center for Cyber Security
• Jessica Kahn, Director, Data and Systems Group (DSG), Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

With only one week until the big event, watch these videos to hear from our two AWS keynote speakers – Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO and Teresa Carlson, AWS’s VP of Worldwide Public Sector.  Register today for this event. The event is free to government, education, nonprofits as well as public sector partners. Are you a customer in another industry? We have free registration codes for you!

Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon 

Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector, AWS

Don’t miss your chance to join AWS and Accenture at the AWS Public Sector Summit. Learn more about the event and register here.

As adoption of cloud computing increases, many public sector organizations have established approved publicly awarded contract vehicles to purchase cloud services. Taking advantage of existing contracts will help accelerate deployment for public sector customers.

There are many contract vehicles currently available for the federal government, state and local governments, and education. Visit our Contract Center here to learn about the many contract vehicles in place.

For state and local governments looking to modernize their city with the cloud, the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions contracts allows customers access to technical capabilities that operate in cloud environments and meet NIST Essential Characteristics.

Currently, AWS has 11 partners active with the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions contracts, including A&T Systems Inc., Deloitte, Emergent, InfoReliance, Strategic Communications, Smartronix, Unisys, CSRA, DLT Solutions, SHI, and Insight.

Cloud vendors awarded NASPO ValuePoint master agreements are approved to provide cloud services to public agencies, thereby simplifying the Request for Proposal (RFP) process. To learn more about creating cloud-friendly procurements, visit our website on how to buy the cloud.

What does it mean for our customers?

Any public agency, public and private institutions of higher education, public school, and other public entity authorized under state statute with an approved participating addendum can begin placing orders with an awarded vendor for AWS services, giving them access to the speed, scale, and flexibility of the AWS Cloud. There are no fees to use NASPO ValuePoint contracts.

Many customers have benefited from working with consulting and technology partners to assist with deployment, adoption, and in transitioning workloads to the cloud.

“This new cloud solutions marketplace represents a major leap forward in enabling governments to partner with cloud providers to more effectively deliver services to citizens,” said Michael DeAngelo, Washington State Deputy Chief Information Officer and one of the CIO advisors for the procurement.

What does it mean for our partners?

AWS has a robust and comprehensive partner ecosystem in the cloud, and it continues to grow at a rapid pace. Having the right mix of business, consulting, and technology partner support in place makes it much easier to purchase, deploy, adopt, and migrate workloads to the cloud.

With NASPO ValuePoint, AWS partners now have a flexible and progressive contract to sell their services and offerings.

Along with our partner solutions and the benefits of the AWS Cloud, technological innovation is within reach for state and local governments.

For more information about NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions, visit our page here.

Want to learn more about how to buy cloud? Join us at the AWS Public Sector Summit and hear from AWS, Deloitte, and other APN partners on contract vehicles and cloud-friendly procurement. Register here.